"1 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy
name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and
in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him:
and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their
substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran;
and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan
they came.

6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain
of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this
land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and
pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he
builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord." -
Genesis 12:1-8

Here we read of the story of Abraham, who God called out of Ur of the
Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan, which God would later give to his
children, the Jews.

Notice we read that God places a special blessing upon Abraham, and says that
he would bless him that blesses Abraham, and would curse him that curses
Abraham.

This blessing was also to be passed down to his children, because we also read
in later chapters in Genesis that God made this same promise to Abraham's son
Isaac, and later his grandson Jacob.

From what we can read from other portions of the Bible, Abraham was a Syrian.
He was the son of Nahor, who was the great-great-great, etc., grandson of
Shem, the son of Noah.

And we can also read about Abraham that he himself was at the time of God's
calling, an uncircumsised Gentile, in which God justified, gave him the
circumcison of the heart, and called his children the Hebrews, which we now
know as the Jews, or the circumsised.

One of the greatest New Testament saints, Stephen gave a detailed description
of Abraham in Acts chapter 7 before he was stoned to death.

"2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared
unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
Charran,

3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and
come into the land which I shall shew thee.

4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and dwelt in Charran: and
from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein
ye now dwell.

5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot
on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his
seed after him, when as yet he had no child." - Acts 7:2-5

Here we read of Stephen's account, that Abraham was promised the land of
Canaan, which is now known in our modern day as the land of Israel, in which
the Jews now dwell. The Jews have wandered all across the nations since the
time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. by the Roman Emperor Titus,
but now the largest population of Jews dwells in the land of Canaan (a.k.a.,
Israel).

So here we had the Jews, who long ago, dwelt in Israel, and in 70A.D.,
Jerusalem was destroyed, and the Jews were led into captive into all the
world. And since that time, for thousands of years, the Jews have wandered
all over the nations. And you can find Jews in every quarter of the earth.
They live in Russia, they live in China, they live in Germany, they live in
Poland, they live in America, Canada, South America, Australia. You name it,
they've been there. But now the largest population of Jews is in Israel.
Because after World War 2, the Jews returned to the land of Israel, and in
1948 they re-established the nation of Israel as the Bible promised.

And notice that Stephen said to the Jews, "...into this land, wherein ye now
dwell." - Verse 4.

So we see a fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham in Acts chapter 7, in that
the Jews were inhabiting the land that God promised. And to this day, it is
so fulfilled, because they live in the land of Israel.

Paul said of God's blessings to Abraham that,

"...when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he
sware by himself,

14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply
thee.

15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." -
Hebrews chapter 6:13-15

No doubt, the desire of God is to bless us. Am I preaching the health and
wealth gospel? No of course not. There is only one gospel. Christ died for
our sins, was buried, rose again, and now grants forgiveness of sins and
eternal life to all that trust in him.

But apart from the gospel, God does want to bless us with both temporal and
eternal blessings. So not only does God want to give us eternal life, but he
wants to bless us on the earth, and meet our needs, and make sure we are
clothed, and fed, and if he so desires, he can give us riches, or whatever he
wants.

And he wants to bless us. But blessing does not always mean riches, do not
get me wrong. But he does promise to meet our needs, because the Bible says,
"...the young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD
shall not want any good thing." - Psalms chapter 34. That word want means
lack.

But these promises of blessings cannot be attained until we become circumsised
in the heart such as Abraham was. The sign of the circumsision was a symbol
of God's work that he would do to Abraham's children in their heart, that his
seed would be saved, and would eventually receive the eternal inheritance of
the whole world, beginning in Israel.

And the Jews are not the only children of Abraham. As we can read in the book
of Galatians, all that believe in Jesus are counted as the children of
Abraham. It says,

"So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." -
Galatians 3:9

So we can conclude that God's blessings are bestowed not only upon the Jews,
but also upon the Gentiles which were not Abraham's direct descendants.

Those of us who are saved, both Jew and Gentile, are blessed with faithful
Abraham. And therefore, those who bless us are blessed, and those who curse
us are cursed. Praise the LORD!

And the ultimate gift of God is his blessing of eternal life, which will be
the eternal inheritance of the earth, as we read in Psalms chapter 37, in
which it says, "But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace." And later, Jesus reiterates this by
saying in Matthew chapter 5, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the
earth."

So we see, that the promise made to Abraham was not only for his carnal
children (the Jews) to receive the reward of the land of Canaan, but also the
reward of an eternal inheritance of the whole earth was promised to him, and
to those who would believe in God as he did, whether they were descendants of
Isaac or Ishmael. Anyone who believes in Jesus will be justified and will be
blessed with faithful Abraham, God's friend.

Now if you have never believed in Jesus to receive forgiveness of sins, you
must do that if you wish to receive the blessings of Abraham. Jesus said to
the Jews who wanted to kill him, "If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do
the works of Abraham..." - John 8:39. Now what was the work of Abraham?
Well, it says that Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for
righteousness. The work of Abraham was in fact not a work at all. It was the
faith he had. It was faith in God, and therefore if the Jews were truly
Abraham's children, they would have faith in God.

But we see that the carnal children of Abraham are not necessarily the
children of Abraham in God's eyes. It is those who believe in Jesus Christ
who are counted to be the children of Abraham. That would include both Jew
and Gentile. Anybody. Whether of Jewish descent, or Gentile descent.
Anybody who believes in Jesus Christ is counted to be a child of Abraham.

So again, if you have never believed in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, you
must do that in order to blessed with Abraham.

The Bible says,
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by me." - John 14:6

Many Catholics believe that Mary is an intercessor between mankind and Jesus.
But that just is not true. That is not in the Bible. We can go straight to
Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, as we can read in various parts of the
scripture.

It says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." - 1 John 1:9

And it also says,

"35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth
not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." - John
3:35-36

It is not enough to simply believe in God. You must believe in Jesus Christ.
You cannot say, I love God. I believe in God. I'm sorry friend, but that's
just not the way it is. You cannot be a Muslim, and expect to receive the
righteousness of Abraham even though you may be a son of Ishmael. And he is a
carnal child of Abraham. You must believe in Jesus Christ in order to receive
the blessings of Abraham and be counted a true child of Abraham, which is a
true child of God.

If you do not regard the Son of God, you will not see eternal life as we have
read in John chapter 3, nor the blessings of Abraham, but you will see only
the fiery pit of hell. The reason why is because your sins have separated you
from God. Your sins of adultery, fornication, wickedness, unbelief, hatred,
wrath, drunkenness, revelry, and all other sorts of sins, as we can read in
Galatians chapter 5, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. Now all are guilty of sin. The Bible says there is none
righteous, no not one. No one is a righteous individual apart from God. None
can save himself. All need to repent and put their faith in Jesus alone to
receive forgiveness of sins, and salvation.

Only then can one be assured eternal life and the blessings of Abraham.